Rowlett man gets 60-year sentence for filming rape of minor

DALLAS — Warning: This story comprises graphic particulars referring to the assault.

A Rowlett man will likely be spending the following 60 years in federal jail for filming himself molesting a 7-year-old woman, a U.S. Attorney’s Office news launch acknowledged.

The convicted man, 35-year-old Mark Alan Miller, was indicted in June 2020 and pleaded responsible to 2 counts of manufacturing of baby pornography in March 2022. U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle gave him the statutory most sentence. 

Court paperwork present police had been referred to as to the sufferer’s residence in January 2020 after the sufferer’s father walked into his daughter’s room and located her being raped on the ground by the defendant.

The father advised police he and Miller had been mates greater than a decade and that he was staying in a single day at their residence, the discharge detailed. When he heard noises and noticed Miller wasn’t in the lounge the place he had been sleeping, he rushed to his daughter’s room and he discovered Miller sexually assaulting his then 9-year-old daughter. 

The father then held Miller at gunpoint till police arrived. 

Miller instantly confessed to police that he had been molesting the kid for years, and mentioned their relationship was “a little too close,” the discharge added. 

Authorities then took the sufferer to the hospital and later to Rockwall Children’s Advocacy Center, the place the kid mentioned that Miller had raped her a number of instances, photographed her genitals and confirmed her the images, in accordance with the discharge. 

After being confronted concerning the images, Miller admitted to taking them, the discharge acknowledged. 

A forensic evaluation of Miller’s digital units confirmed he had produced not less than 5 movies and 132 images of the sufferer over the past two years. 

A Rockwall Police Department forensic analyst testified on the sentencing listening to that Miller’s digital units contained greater than 8,000 photos of baby pornography, and that Miller used a revealing picture of the sufferer from this case as his cellphone’s screensaver.